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William Wheatley, an officer of the Australian police, is currently undergoing court proceedings in connection with accusations of stealing crypto assets seized during the dismantling of an online drug-trafficking operation. origin »
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) formed a new cryptocurrency unit to focus on crypto-related transactions, reported The Australian Financial Review. The step is in line with the policy of AustraliaThe post How Australian police is combating criminals through cryptocurrency appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-9-7 20:30 | |
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Amid a rise in cryptocurrency-related crimes, Australia’s Federal Police has set up a new cryptocurrency unit to crack down on money laundering, the Australian Financial Review reported on September 5.
2022-9-6 07:00 | |
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Australian crypto fraud just got a little harder. Federal Police have launched a new unit to tackle money laundering using cryptocurrencies. The post Australian Crypto Fraud: Federal Police Tap Forensic Unit to Curb Crims appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-9-6 01:57 | |
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The Australian Federal Police has formed a unit to tackle the use of cryptocurrency as a means of money laundering and offshoring, the Australian Financial Review reported Monday.
2022-9-6 18:45 | |
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The use of crypto in criminal activity has reportedly significantly increased since the AFP made its first crypto seizure in early 2018.
2022-9-6 16:09 | |
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Australian authorities have stepped up their efforts to crack down on cryptocurrency-related criminal activities
2022-9-5 12:09 | |
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Police in Victoria has seized what they believe is the largest amount of crypto ever by Australian police. The post Victoria’s Cyber Crime Division Seizes a Record Amount of Cryptocurrency appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-8-21 21:37 | |
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Matt Johnson, Ledger’s Chief Information and Security Officer. Matt is a former Australian Federal Police officer, with proven experience in physical and cybersecurity, he held positions such as Group Chief Security Officer at Ingenico and Director of Cybersecurity at Visa.
2021-2-27 17:51 | |
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In the latest crackdown on the Darknet marketplace, German police arrested a 34-year-old Australian national near the Danish border who allegedly operated DarkMarket, a site used by half a million people.
2021-1-14 23:59 | |
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Sydney police have arrested an Australian woman for allegedly running a crime syndicate using Bitcoin to launder $3.23 million since 2017.
2020-5-16 11:43 | |
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A 52-year-old Australian woman who used Bitcoin to launder dirty money has been nabbed by police
2020-5-15 09:12 | |
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An Australian teenager got arrested after mailing illegal drugs in exchange for Bitcoin (BTC)
2020-3-26 17:04 | |
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The 2019 National Proceeds of Crime Conference (NPOCC) held in Brisbane, Australia from November 13-15 addressed “Globalisation and Digitisation of the Criminal Economy,” and featured 200+ delegates hearing from representatives of organizations such as the Australian Federal Police, Singapore and New Zealand police, United States Department of Justice, and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission.
2019-11-15 20:15 | |
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More than 200 representatives of various police departments will meet in Brisbane, Australia, this week. The purpose is to share information about the evolving methods online criminals are using to carry out crimes and hide the proceeds from them with the help of Bitcoin and other technologies.
2019-11-14 06:43 | |
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Australian police arrested a man operating a cryptocurrency ATM that allegedly facilitated “unregistered cryptocurrency transactions”
2019-11-12 13:45 | |
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Australian Detectives known as the ‘E-Crime Squad’ have arrested a man for providing unregistered cryptocurrency services. Authorities charged the man for breaking anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
2019-11-12 13:20 | |
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Drug cartels and other criminal activities are mostly associated with Bitcoin trading. This is to raise funds to enhance their criminal activities. In the event, however, when the police confiscate $BTC from these illegal activities, where do they go? In Australia, for instance, it’s has been disclosed that in one scenario, the police collected a 20-fold […]
2019-10-25 00:21 | |
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Australian authorities have become unwitting benefactors of Bitcoin’s impressive bull run in recent years. The Australia Federal Police’s latest Annual Report highlights a bust which netted them a cool 2000% profit.
2019-10-23 15:30 | |
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A 21-year old woman is due to appear in court for laundering millions of stolen funds in cryptos. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have been conducting investigations into the multi-layered cybercrime activity for more than twelve months.
2019-9-18 18:47 | |
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Six people broke into two Australian Apple Stores early this morning, making off with nearly $300,000 worth of products. The group, according to a Facebook post by the Western Australia Police Force, used a sledgehammer to gain entry to both stores.
2019-9-4 21:47 | |
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Agencies to include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, an Australian investigative agency, and an unnamed agency have opened separate investigations into the defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.
2019-8-28 23:40 | |
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The law enforcement of Australia has recently charged five people for a cryptocurrency-related scam that involved $2. 7 million AUD ($1. 8 million USD). The investigation, which was made by the cybercrime division of the country, discovered that the criminals fooled over 100 investors.
2019-8-9 22:37 | |
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An Australian citizen who ran an international crypto Ponzi scheme will face justice after police in India finally arrested him - but not before he defrauded victims out of $28 million. 'Hybrid crypto' with low risks and high returns India's Special Task Force (STF) arrested Sydney resident Harpreet Singh Sahni in a hotel near the […] The post $28 Million Crypto Ponzi Lands Morally Bankrupt Scammer in Jail appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-8 17:59 | |
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Australian police have charged five people in connection with a protracted cold call cryptocurrency investment scam that tricked more than 100 victims into losing $2. 7 million. The scam, which operated from Australia‘s Gold Coast, was busted as part of ‘Operation Quebec Walnut.
2019-8-8 14:21 | |
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Five people have been charged in Australia over a cold-call cryptocurrency investment fraud that allegedly duped investors for over $1.8 million.
2019-8-8 12:43 | |
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An Australian man has been charged after authorities linked him to a cryptocurrency account used to buy child exploitation material. An investigation, following a tip off from US authorities in December last year, traced the account back to a 27-year-old man from Sydney.
2019-7-9 12:09 | |
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a government employee alleged to have misused government IT infrastructure for personal cryptomining operations, per a press release.
2019-5-22 18:47 | |
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Despite the fact that the price of bitcoin and other digital assets are just trying to recover from the winter of 2018, the crypto fever remains as hot as ever. Now, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have charged a 33-year-old Sydney man for illegally mining cryptos with the federal government agency’s computers, reports local newsRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-22 11:00 | |
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An Australian government employee is appearing in court today after using work equipment to mine cryptocurrency for his own gain. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) allege that the 33 year-old from Killara in New South Wales took advantage of his position as an IT contractor to modify government computer systems to mine cryptocurrency.
2019-5-21 13:27 | |
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By CCN: A man from Sydney, Australia will appear in court on Tuesday after turning a government computer into a bitcoin mining rig. He allegedly mined $9,000 worth of cryptocurrency on the modified machine.
2019-5-21 12:26 | |
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By CCN. com: As bitcoin entrepreneurs who founded the fast-growing Auscoin Bitcoin ATM business in Australia, there was nothing suspicious about Steen McBeth and Sam Karagiozis leading a flashy lifestyle including driving Lamborghinis and BMW motorcycles.
2019-4-22 12:36 | |
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Brenton Tarrant, the Australian man behind today’s ghastly attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, reportedly made money from BitConnect investments. 49 people were confirmed dead by New Zealand police commissioner Mike Bush as of press time.
2019-3-15 13:39 | |
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27-year-old Sam Karagiozis has been named as the individual arrested on March 7 following raids carried out by the Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) and Australian Federal Police.
2019-3-13 06:58 | |
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The Australian cryptocurrency pioneer Sam Karagiozis has been arrested accused of trafficking 30 kilograms of drugs. Mr. Karagiozis informed he lost around $3 million after the cryptocurrency market crash in 2018.
2019-3-11 16:31 | |
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Two Australian cryptocurrency exchanges have been suspended by the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac) following raids conducted by the Australian Federal Police in Melbourne.
2019-3-10 22:22 | |
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Two cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia have been suspended following raids of the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC). One man has been arrested.
2019-3-8 21:00 | |
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The Australian Federal Police arrested a 27-year bitcoin exchange operator for running a drug distribution ring. The investigation dates back to 2017 when the AFP had arrested two Victorian men for importing drugs to Australia.
2019-3-9 14:05 | |
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Australian federal police (AFP) have arrested two men connected to a cryptocurrency-fused drug syndicate operating in Melbourne. According to a statement, AFP agents executed a string of search warrants yesterday, seizing steroids, Australian currency, and “cryptocurrency-related items.
2019-3-8 13:58 | |
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In a report published October 25, 2018, police in New South Wales announced the arrest of a woman responsible for stealing more than $450,000 worth of XRP. Theft Details The woman was caught after the assembly of a new task force called Strike Force Rostrevor that was established in January to investigate the sudden loss of the victims Ripple tokens.
2018-10-27 09:00 | |
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New South Wales police forces arrested a 23-year-old Australian for stealing Ripple worth $46,000.
2018-10-26 19:17 | |
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A 23-year-old Australian woman was charged with stealing $450,000 worth of Ripple (XRP). According to Business Insider Australia’s article published on October 25, 2018, the stolen Ripple is considered one of Australia’s largest cryptocurrency thefts.
2018-10-26 16:29 | |
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A 23-year-old Australian woman has been arrested over the alleged theft of AU$450,000 worth of XRP tokens following a 10-month investigation. More than 100,000 units of the token were stolen from an electronic account belonging to a 56-year-old man.
2018-10-25 21:00 | |
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New South Wales Police have arrested a 23-year-old woman in connection to a case of theft involving over $450,000 worth of Ripple cryptocurrency. The theft incident occurred in January when 100,000 XRP were illegally removed from the online wallet of a crypto owner.
2018-10-26 19:23 | |
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Australian police have been informed of a scam in which the perpetrators are requesting people deposit funds for them at cryptocurrency ATMs. It is thought that those behind the scam are targeting newly-arrived migrants who are unsure if such requests are genuine since they are navigating an entirely foreign system of taxation for the first.
2018-10-6 00:00 | |
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A staged fake-delivery encounter in San Francisco’s Mission Dolores district escalated into one of the city’s largest known individual crypto thefts, after a disguised assailant subdued a resident and escaped with assets worth $11 million, alongside the victim’s phone and laptop.
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In a recent financial statement on Circle’s (CRCL) third-quarter (Q3) performance, the stablecoin giant saw tremendous increase in key metrics, exceeding Wall Street estimates. Circle’s Financial Disclosures According to the financial disclosures made public by the firm on Wednesday, Circle’s Reserve Income surged to $711 million, marking a substantial 60% year-over-year increase, primarily fueled by […]
According to a recent report by Bloomberg, the cybersecurity arm of China has openly accused the US government of orchestrating the theft of approximately $13 billion in Bitcoin (BTC), adding tension to the ongoing cyber relations between the two nations.